An interesting meeting ... with pictures of lots of bridges and structures and very much staffed by the designers of the steelwork and bridges, and by First Great Western (at least those were the people I spoke too
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Community Rail has an issue in that the two Network Rail folks who used to look after us have been move on as the posts have been removed, and all around the country there has been a move to establish local relationships. I understand that it's worked/working very well in some areas, but in others the liaison role is being foisted on unwilling people; somewhat relieved to have a contact name now (though he was not there tonight) and by reputation he's a good 'un.
Some readers here may not be aware of Bath blockade details for summer 2015 ... until now it has been described to me as 3 weeks Box Tunnel followed by 3 weeks Box Tunnel plus Bath Eastern approaches. I understand this evening that it's been amended to 2 + 4 rather than 3 + 3, so probably late July for the "2" and all of August for the "4". I'm getting myself fully "genned up" so that I can (a) make tuning requests to plans which already seem to have been made (b) prepare literature and marketing to spin the best light on it and (c) understand change risks so that we don't print / publicise one set of changes just to find that they're changed.
